FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- LaToya Ratlieff remembers the blood spilling from her head, covering her clothes, the car ride from a stranger to the hospital and the 20 stitches sewn into her head after being shot in the face by a police officer with a rubber bullet during a Fort Lauderdale protest.
Ratlieff sat down with The Associated Press for an interview Friday, nearly two weeks after a photo of her injured face went viral. Twenty-four hours after the incident, the haunting selfie documented her purple right eye swollen shut, her left eye puffy and half open and a thick bandage wrapped around her forehead. She is seeing specialists to assess whether there's long-term damage from the cranial fracture.
Fort Lauderdale Police did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Friday. Ratlieff said someone from the department’s internal affairs contacted her last week, but it was literally too painful to speak. A Fort Lauderdale police officer was suspended for an incident during that same protest after video showed he pushed a kneeling woman to the ground. Angry protesters responded by throwing bottles. The officer’s colleagues quickly pushed him away from the woman and down the street.
The police should unload a full clip of rubber answers into that question.
If you play the game right...you're going get cuts, bruises, and scars. PARTY ON PROTESTERS
Shouldn’t put your face in front of their guns.
I think they’re actually called a “non-lethal deterrent”. I’ll bet she remembers the deterrent factor the next time she joins a protest.
They must stay home and stop looting and burning things. Do they want the police to applaud their looting
Maybe she should of stayed home..there was a virus out there..stay at home order..
She got one answer. How many more would she like?
You chose to be there.
Yes, and America wants answers as to why “peaceful protests” are immediately followed by looting, chaos and uncivilized actions.
should have stayed home
I saw riots with some protestors that did not try to stop rioting- if you sun bathing on a beach that Marines are landing on you might get hurt- dah
Here is your answer dummy ! You were told to leave and you didn’t !!!
Clear the streets at curfew. Stop looting. Stop rioting. Stop putting yourself at odds with the police.
DefundThePolice
YA, YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME!!!!!
rebellion is a dangerous business. stay home
You should of stay home. How about that for an answer.
ANSWER: Don’t put yourself in a position to get hit with a rubber bullet!
Should have stayed home, much safer.
Change comes with a price. When you put yourself in a volatile situation then you need to be prepared. The police shouldn’t be expected to get pelted with rocks or bottles and night after night and not react.
The answer is.. she wouldn't have been hit by a rubber bullets if she had been home where she belonged.
The answer is, if you had not been there it would not have happened.
Don't go to riots.
You riot, you get what you deserve.
I got one for her dont ignore the police and that shit wont happen
Answer= obey the police
They should have been lead bullets
Casualties of war.
Answer: Your in a protest... Your risk... Look for a payday somewhere else..
Advice: don’t get hit !!
Store owners that were looted want answers too. Take a number.
So does David Dorn.
Riots have consequences , no good bleating afterwards .
Protester?
This is one of the reasons why I don’t protest. I don’t wanna get hurt just for protesting the right way.
The Answer is DON'T RIOT! Domestic Terrorism is Un-American! Protesters do NOT get this RIOTERS DO! She's one STUPIDGIRL !
Answer: They are not team players
Should of stayed home
PattyArquette How is using rubber bullets and tear gas at a protest is justified? Our country needs to be better than that. It’s sick. Our right to protest is what makes our country great. It’s an ideology I was proud to serve for.
PattyArquette Adding police or military to a protest is absurd. That’s when the mud hits the fan.
Disperse verb (used without object), dis·persed, dis·pers·ing. to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: The crowd dispersed. to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish: The smoke dispersed into the sky.
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The answer is when your rioting and told to disperse, follow orders or this is what you get.
Well, she should’ve been bobbing instead of weeving and she’d be ok now. Additionally, don’t go out and act a fool and expect there won’t be consequences. Clowns..
Police officer hit by protesters throwing bricks wants answers as well.
Don’t forget to wear a helmet while protesting
funny how many people ain't even reading the story and are acting like police should just shoot everyone outside their homes these days. Wait for the body cam footage. You'll find out they just shot her for no reason other than an inferiority complex.
Starts sh*t gets f-ed up now plays victim. Don’t start sh*t won’t be sh*t simple as that! 😂
Its her own doing. Stay home. If you want to go out and prove a point then you better be up for point provin back. Dont come and cry now. Stay home.
Where is looting，where is shooting.
She got her answer right on her forehead
You'll shoot a eye out kid? achristmasstory
Answer: don’t be in the line of fire.
The answer I can give you stay at home safe For your family stay at home safty is number oneThe deceased with the police got personal grudges hostility when they worked at same place as safeguards So don't be cheated by some Media and some people purposely manipulated this issue.
“Well Mam, you were involved in a riot and us police defending law abiding folk fired RUBBER bullets at you rioters. If we had it our way, they wouldn’t have been rubber. Lesson learned. Have a good day mam.”
Shit happens...
ABC = Always Bad Coverage
lol
Rubber Bullets magically seem to just hit innocent peace loving people. In a oddly similar way that drive by and gang shooting stray bullets seem to only hit children under 10 sleeping in their beds.
Rubber bullet leaves gun. Travels through the air. Hits you in the face. That pretty much answers it.
Abc is a shit network. The people should be turning against so called news organizations they are the provokers
Do they fire to miss?
Looks like she hit the bullet with that mug.
Sweet scoop ABC. Dont worry. No one is following Judicial Watch or the Senate's subpoenas of the DNC leadership. You're doing great!
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If there was that much danger out there these people need to be home protecting their selves and families! You know the saying you go in the barn you get crap on your feet!
Ta cas pas allez manifester ,pour venir te plaindre après 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well, say hello to little friend every morning till the end of your patethic life
You’re lucky, DavidDorn was murdered.
I feel very sorry for this lady, but I don't think the press coverage has been fair. Mainstream media has been heavily biased in favor of protesters. Now the US is going through a cultural revolution. Self-destruction in process.
This is France of Mr. Macron....
the protest look like a South Park’s episode
Lol
Yeh so are those beaten and robbed, ABC.
Go home and nothing will happen to you! That's her answer.
Thank god our Founders were nothing like the majority of the people in this thread...absolute morons to live in a Democracy and tell you to stay home....plain stupidity. I hope you don't breed. The cops answer to us not the other way around. Now get your answers girl.
It’s funny how all the people who were hit by rubber bullets were innocent and peaceful 😂😂😂😂😂
Head on a swivel.
Fck the answers and sue those bastards
I want answers, too. Why didn’t you stay the f*ck home? There’s a pandemic.
The question is:”Where am I?” 😂😂
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